Westport man found with thousands of images, videos of boys

Tuesday

WESTPORT — State police have charged a Westport man on possession of child pornography after allegedly finding thousands of images and videos of young boys in his home.

Police announced Tuesday that Raymond Gagne, 50, of Westport, was arrested Monday on four counts of possession of child pornography after State and Westport police searched his home.

The charges come following an investigation by the Massachusetts State Police Cyber Crime Unit/Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force that began in January when the CCU received information from a blogging site that someone had “uploaded images depicting nude, prepubescent males being posed in a lascivious manner. ”

Police were able to identify Gagne as that person and received a search warrant for his home.

During the search Monday, police said they located thousands of images and videos “believed to be pornographic in nature.”

Gagne is scheduled for arraignment in court today.

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